I was walking out of an academic building this morning when just a glimmer of hair was caught in my peripheral vision. Halfway out of the second exit, I stretch backwards in a true test of acrobatics to reopen the door for the woman behind me. She catches the opening and I smile. She gives me a dead look and walks out of the adjacent door.
I think that I was momentarily stunned. "Please and thank you, they are the magic words," they're also the first things you learn in Head Start. I'm putting this on the school systems and not her parents because they obviously didn't teach her manners, or she opted not to listen.
With the only thing left to do, I dug down deep and let my chorus of
"YOUR WELCOME!" echo through the quad.
She flinched and that gave me satisfaction.
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